Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, sentence 10

For it seemed as if the watcher stared with his whole face, aye, and with his hands; but Fionn brooded weightedly on distance with his puckered and crannied brow.

Who acts: it, watcher, Fionn · What happens: seem, stare, brood, pucker, cranny

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, watcher, Fionn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 seemed	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 stared	mark
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 stared	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 watcher	det
7	watcher	watcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stared	nsubj
8	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seemed	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 face	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 face	nmod:poss
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 face	amod
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stared	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 aye	punct
14	aye	aye	INTJ	_	8 stared	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hands	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hands	cc
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 hands	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hands	nmod:poss
19	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 seemed	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 brooded	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 brooded	cc
22	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 brooded	nsubj
23	brooded	brood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seemed	conj
24	weightedly	weightedly	ADV	_	23 brooded	advmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 distance	case
26	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 brooded	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	32 brow	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 brow	nmod:poss
29	puckered	pucker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 brow	amod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 crannied	cc
31	crannied	cranny	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 puckered	conj
32	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 distance	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	seem	past	it	with watcher's hands	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	stare a condition, not said to happen	past	the watcher	with watcher's whole face	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	brood	past	Fionn	on distance with Fionn's puckered brow; weightedly property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on distance=Topic
4	pucker	participle			vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	cranny	participle			tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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